In this exercise, I'll show you how the NAT mode lets you do some basic networking tasks in your virtual machine as if you were working with a real PC behind a firewall or router. I'll also show you how to set up a web server in one of your virtual machines and test if you can access that web server from your host PC. In this exercise, I used a Windows XP system as the host PC and the UbuntuVB
virtual machine we created in previous chapters.
If you're using a Windows host, open a Command Prompt window and type
ipconfig
, followed by Enter. If you're using a Linux host, open a terminal window and typeifconfig
, followed by Enter. Your IP configuration will show up next, as in the following screenshot (Windows host):There will be an entry for each network adapter physically connected to your host PC and one entry for the VirtualBox Host-Only Network virtual adapter. In the previous screenshot, there are two entries, one for the real network...